An autonomous Flanders, the president of the N-VA, Bart De Wever, wants to impose it and “extralegal“. “All major reforms were introduced extra-legal and then legalized“, he declared on the set of the program De Zevende Dag of the VRT-television.
On the set of QR the debate, ULB political scientist Pascal Delwit explains that the constitution cannot be circumvented: “An independent Flanders or with an in-depth autonomy, the two scenarios are almost impossible unless we take an extralegal act, which amounts to carrying out a coup d’etat in the literal sense of the term.“.
In the event of a secession or a unilateral declaration of independence, Europe might intervene if Flanders wished to remain in the European Union adds Pascal Delwit. “Would Europe accept that a territory of a state of the union secede, the scenario is very unlikely“.
In fact, the most likely scenario is an exchange between the revision of the special financing law in return for a deepening of Flemish autonomy, explains the political scientist: “The economic situation of French speakers is a lever for the discussion around confederalism desired by the Flemish nationalist party“.
